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 stands aside。 Between the curtains; Professor Maginni inserts a leg on the toepoint of which spins a silk hat。 With a deft kick; he sends it spinning to his crown and jauntyhatted skates in。 He wears a slate frockcoat with claret silk lapels; a go…et of cream tulle; a green lowcut waistcoat; stock collar with white kerchief tight lavender trousers; patent pumps and canary gloves。 In his buttonhole is a dahlia。 He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane; then wedges it tight in his oxter。 He places a hand limply on his breastbone; bows and fondles his flower and buttons。) 
MAGINNI The poetry of motion; art of callisthenics。 No connection with Madam Legget Byrne's or Levinstone's。 Fancy dress balls arranged。 Deportment。 The Katty Lanner steps。 So。 Watch me! My terpsichorean abilities。 (He minuets forward three paces on tripping bee's feet。) Tout le monde an avant! Révérence! Tout le monde en place! 
(The prelude ceases。 Professor Goodwin; beating vague arms;shrivels; shrinks; his live cape falling about the stool。 The air; in firmer waltz time; pounds。 Stephen and Zoe circle freely。 The lights change; glow; fade; gold; rose; violet。) 
THE PIANOLA Two young fellows were talking about their girls; girls; girls; Sweethearts they'd left behind。 
(From a corner the morning hours run out; goldhaired; slim; in girlish blue; waspwaisted; with innocent hands。 Nimbly they dance; twirling their skipping ropes。 The hours of noon follow in amber gold。 Laughing linked; high hairbs flashing; they catch the sun in mocking mirrors; lifting their arms。) 
MAGINNI (Clipclaps glovesilent hands。) Carré! Avant deux! Breathe evenly! Balance! 
(The morning and noon hours waltz in their places; turning; advancing to each other; shaping their curves; bowing vis a vis。 Cavaliers behind them arch and suspend their arms; with hands descending to; touching; rising from their shoulders。) 
HOURS You may touch my。 
CAVALIERS May I touch your? 
HOURS O; but lightly! 
CAVALIERS O; so lightly! 
THE PIANOLA My little shy little lass has a waist。 
(Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing。 The twilight hours advance; from long landshadows; dispersed; lagging; languideyed; their cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom。 They are in grey gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the land breeze。) 
MAGINNI Avant! huit! Traversé! Salut! Cours de mains! Croisé! 
(The eight hours steal to the last place。 Morning; noon and twilight hours retreat before them。 They are masked; with daggered hair and bracelets of dull bells。 Weary; they curchycurchy under veils。) 
THE BRACELETS Heigho! Heigho! 
ZOE (Twisting; her hand to her brow。) O! 
MAGINNI Los tiroirs! Cha?ne de dames! La corbeille! Dos à dos! 
(Arabesquing wearily; they weave a pattern on the floor; weaving; unweaving; curtseying; twisting; simply swirling。) 
ZOE I'm giddy。 
(She frees herself droops on a chair; Stephen seizes Florry and turns with her。) 
MAGINNI Boulangère! Los ronds! Los ponts! Chevaux de bois! Escargots! 
(Twining; receding; with interchanging hands; the night hours link; each with arching arms; in a mosaic of movements。 Stephen and Florry turn cumbrously。) 
MAGINNI Dansez avec vos dames! Changes de dames! Donnes le petit bouquet a votre dame! Remerciez! 
THE PIANOLA 
Best; best of all; 
Baraabum!
KITTY (Jumps up。) O; they played that on the hobbyhorses at the Mirus bazaar! 
(She runs to Stephen。 He leaves Florry brusquely and seizes Kitty。 A screaming bit tern's harsh high whistle shrieks。 Groangrousegurgling Toft's cumbersome whirligig turns slowly the room right roundabout the room。) 
THE PIANOLA My girl's a Yorkshire girl。 
ZOE Yorkshire through and through。 e on all! 
(She seizes Florry and waltzes her。) 
STEPHEN Pas seul! 
(He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arm's; snatches up his ashplant from the table and takes the floor。 All wheel; whirl; waltz; twirl。 Bloombella; Kittylynch; Florryzoe; jujuby women。 Stephen with hat ashplant frogsplits in middle highkicks with skykicking mouth shut hand clasp part under thigh; with clang tinkle boomhammer tallyho horn blower blue green yellow flashes。 Toft's cumbersome turns with hobbyhorse riders from gilded snakes dangled; bowels fandango leaping spurn soil foot and fall again。) 
THE PIANOLA 
Though she's a factory lass 
And wears no fancy clothes。
(Closeclutched swift swifter with glareblareflare scudding they scotlootshoot lumbering by。 Baraabum!) 
TUTTI Encore! Bis! Bravo! Encore! 
SIMON Think of your mother's people! 
STEPHEN Dance of death。 
(Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell; horse; nag; steer piglings; Conmee on Christass lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe' through and through; Baraabum! On nags; hogs; bellhorses; Gadarene swine; Corny in coffin。 Steel shark stone one handled Nelson; two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram falling bawling。 Gum; he's a champion。 Fuseblue peer from barrel rev。 evensong love on hackney jaunt Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes。 Then in last wiswitchback lumbering up and down bump mash tub sort of viceroy and reine relish for tublumber bumpshire rose。 Baraabum!) 
(The couples fall aside。 Stephen whirls giddily。 Room whirls back。 Eyes closed; he totters。 Red rails fly spacewards。 Stars all around suns turn roundabout。 Bright midges dance on wall。 He stops dead。) 
STEPHEN Ho! 
(Stephen's mother; emaciated; rises stark through the floor in leper grey with a wreath of faded orange blossoms and a torn bridal veil; her face worn and noseless; green with grave mould。 Her hair is scant and lank。 She fixes her bluecircled hollow eyesockets on Stephen and opens her toothless mouth uttering a silent word。 A choir of virgins and confessors sing voicelessly。) 
THE CHOIR 
Liliata rutilantium te confessorum。。。 
Iubilantium te virginum。。。 
(From the top of a tower Buck Mulligan; in particoloured jester's dress of puce and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell; stands gaping at her; a smoking buttered split scone in his hand。)
BUCK MULLIGAN She's beastly dead。 The pity of it! Mulligan meets the afflicted mother。 (He upturns his eyes。) Mercurial Malachi。
THE MOTHER (With the subtle smile of death's madness。) I was once the beautiful May Goulding。 I am dead。
STEPHEN (Horrorstruck。) Lemur; who are you? What bogey man's trick is this?
BUCK MULLIGAN (Shakes his curling capbell。) The mockery of it! Kinch killed her dogsbody bitchbody。 She kicked the bucket。 (Tears of molten butter fall from his eyes into the scone。) Our great sweet mother! Epi oinopa ponton。
THE MOTHER (es nearer; breathing upon him softly her breath of wetted ashes。) All must go through it; Stephen。 More women than men in the world。 You too。 Time will e。
STEPHEN (Choking with fright; remorse and horror。) They said I killed you; mother。 He offended your memory。 Cancer did it; not I。 Destiny。
THE MOTHER (A green rill of bile trickling from a side of her mouth。) You sang that song to me。 Love's bitter mystery。
STEPHEN (Eagerly。) Tell me the word; mother; if you know now。 The word known to all men。
THE MOTHER Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at Dalkey with Paddy Lee? Who had pity for you when you were sad among the strangers? Prayer is all powerful。 Prayer for the suffering souls in the Ursuline manual; and forty days' indulgence。 Repent; Stephen。
STEPHEN The ghoul! Hyena!
THE MOTHER I pray for you in my other world。 Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brain work。 Years and years I loved you; O my son; my firstborn; when you lay in my womb。
ZOE (Fanning herself with the grate fan。) I'm melting!
FLORRY (Points to Stephen) Look! He's white。
BLOOM (Goes to the window to open it more。) Giddy。
THE MOTHER (With smouldering eyes。) Repent! O; the fire of hell!
STEPHEN (Panting。) The corpsechewer! Raw head and bloody bones!
THE MOTHER (Her face drawing near and nearer; sending out an ashen breath。) Beware! (She raises her blackened; withered right arm slowly towards Stephen's breast with outstretched fingers。) Beware! God's hand! (A green crab with malignant red eyes sticks deep its grinning claws in Stephen's heart。)
STEPHEN (Strangled with rage。) Shite! (His features grow drawn and grey and old。)
BLOOM (At the window。) What?
STEPHEN Ah non; par exemple! The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all。 Non serviam!
FLORRY Give him some cold water。 Wait。 (She rushes out。)
THE MOTHER (Wrings her hands slowly; moaning desperately。) O Sacred Heart of Jesus; have mercy on him! Save him from hell; O divine Sacred Heart!
STEPHEN No! No! No! Break my spirit all of you if you can! I'll bring you all to heel!
THE MOTHER (In the agony of her deathrattle。) Have mercy on Stephen; Lord; for my sake! Inexpressible was my anguish when expiring with love; grief and agony on Mount Calvary。
STEPHEN Nothung!
(He hits his ashplant high with both hands and smashes the chandelier。 Time's livid final flame leaps and; in the following darkness; ruin of all space; shattered glass and toppling masonry。)
THE GASJET Pwfungg! 
BLOOM Stop!
LYNCH (Rushes forward and seizes Stephen's hand。) Here! Hold on! Don't run amok!
BELLA Police!
(Stephen; abandoning his ashplant; his head and arms thrown back stark; beats the ground and flees from the room past the whores at the door。) 
BELLA (Screams。) After him!
(The two whores rush to the halldoors。 Lynch and Kitty and Zoe stampede from the room。 They talk excitedly。 Bloom follows; returns。)
THE WHORES (Jammed in the doorway; pointing。) Down there。
ZOE (Pointing。) There。 There's something up。
BELLA Who pays for the lamp? (She seizes Bloom's coattail。) There。 You were with him。 The lamp's broken。
BLOOM (Rushes to the hall; rushes back。) What lamp; woman? 
A WHORE He tore his coat。
BELLA (Her eyes hard with anger and cupidity; points。) Who's to pay for that? Ten Shillings。 You're a witness。
BLOOM (Snatches up Stephen's ashplant。) Me? Ten shillings? Haven't you lifted enough off him? Didn't he。。。 
BELLA (Loudly。) Here; none of your tall talk。 This isn't a brothel。 A ten shilling house。
BLOOM (His hand under the lamp; pulls the chain。 Pulling; the gasjet lights up a crushed mauve purple shade。 He raises the ashplant。) Only the chimney's broken。 Here is all he。。。 
BELLA (Shrinks back and screams。) Jesus! Don't!
BLOOM (Warding off a blow。) To show you how he hit the paper。 There's not a sixpenceworth of damage done。 Ten shillings!
FLORRY (With a glass of water enters。) Where is he?
BELLA Do you want me to call the police?
BLOOM O; I know。 Bulldog on the premises。 But he's a Trinity student。 Patrons of your establishment。 Gentlemen that pay the rent。 (He makes a masonic sign。) Know what I mean? Nephew of the vice…chancellor。 You don't want a scandal。
BELLA (Angrily。) Trinity! ing down here ragging after the boat races and paying nothing。 Are you my mander here? Where is he? I'll charge him。 Disgrace him; I will。 (She shouts。) Zoe! Zoe!
BLOOM (Urgently。) And if it were your own son in Oxford! (Warningly。) I know。
BELLA (Almost speechless。) Who are you incog?
ZOE (In the doorway。) There's a row on。
BLOOM What? Where? (He throws a shilling on the table and shouts。) That's for the chimney。 Where? I need mountain air。 (He hurries out th

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